Orange Cookies – Sugar Spun Run

These orange cookies are infused with recent orange juice and zest and topped with a easy frosting. They’re so gentle, tender, and brightly flavored (and there’s no chilling required!).

Why You’ll Love These Orange Cookies

• Vibrant orange taste from actual oranges–no extracts, synthetic flavors, or gelatin right here. I make my strawberry cookies with actual strawberries too, in the event you’d wish to strive a special however equally tasty fruity cookie.
• No chilling required! The dough doesn’t must be chilled, so you may bake immediately. When you’re impatient like I’m, this can be a large plus 😁
• Lofthouse-style look and texture with their flat, spherical form and clean frosting. And don’t neglect the orange zest on high!
• Talking of frosting, we’re utilizing a easy and attractive frosting right now. You can pipe it on high if you wish to get slightly fancy, however I like to only unfold it on with an offset spatula.

These orange cookies are a lot enjoyable! They’ve a vivid and recent orange taste that particularly comes via within the frosting, so don’t skip it. I additionally add some cream cheese to the frosting as a result of it actually enhances the orange taste (similar to the frosting on my orange rolls!).

The cookies themselves are gentle and tender (once more, assume lofthouse-esque) and have to be flattened after baking. Much like my lemon meltaways, this helps create a dense but concurrently extra tender, melt-in-your-mouth heart and a flat floor for making use of the frosting. 

I can’t wait so that you can strive them, so let’s dive proper in!

What You Want

Let’s briefly go over just a few of our key elements earlier than we get began with our cookies.

• Oranges. Recent oranges are a should for these orange cookies! We’ll be utilizing the zest and juice of our oranges; I sometimes discover that I would like three oranges for this recipe, however you might want roughly relying on the dimensions of yours.
• Egg yolks. We’re utilizing solely the yolks of our eggs right here for tender and chewy outcomes. When you’d like to make use of your egg whites as a substitute of throwing them away, you should use them for coconut macaroons, French macarons, or angel meals cake (simply to call just a few choices!).
• Butter. I exploit softened unsalted butter for each the cookies and the frosting, although you could possibly use salted for every if that’s all you will have readily available. When you do use salted for the cookies themselves, you will have to cut back the extra salt to ¼ teaspoon.
• Cream cheese. Follow full-fat, brick-style cream cheese. Ensure to let the cream cheese soften beforehand so it could actually simply mix with the butter to make the orange frosting.

SAM’S TIP: At all times zest your citrus earlier than juicing; it’s practically unattainable to zest after (I at all times find yourself grating my knuckles this fashion… ouch!).

Bear in mind, that is simply an summary of the elements I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the publish!

Easy methods to Make Orange Cookies

Make the Cookie Dough

1. Cream the butter, orange zest, and sugar till mild and fluffy, then stir within the egg yolks and blend till mixed. Including the orange zest at this step helps to launch its oils, finally leading to a extra pronounced orange taste.
2. Slowly drizzle within the orange juice whereas stirring on low pace, then combine till mixed.
3. Whisk the dry elements collectively in a separate bowl earlier than step by step including them to the moist elements.
4. Roll scoops of dough between your palms, then bake. Ensure the dough balls are clean and even so that they have a pleasant spherical form as soon as baked!

5. Flatten every cookie with the underside of a measuring cup or glass, then let the cookies cool fully. I wish to make the frosting whereas the cookies cool.

Frosting

1. Stir the cream cheese and butter collectively till clean, then step by step add the powdered sugar.
2. Add the orange zest and juice, then stir till the frosting is totally mixed.
3. Unfold the frosting on high of the cooled cookies.

SAM’S TIP: I like so as to add extra orange zest on high of my frosted orange cookies, however you could possibly skip this and even change it with some enjoyable sprinkles as a substitute.

Often Requested Questions

That is my remaining cookie recipe of 2023–whew! I’ve shared SO many this 12 months and would like to know which one was your favourite 💕

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